Xperia M C1904 Lockdown (Android 4.3)

Ok, straight to the point (Again).I bought a Sony Xperia M C1904 a year ago around February... It was working just well, I mean, I loved my phone, a week ago I was using it normally and every single process in my phone popped out the "X thing has stopped working", my phone rebooted and poof, encripted phone, I dont know what kind of joke is that but it aint funny at all. I tried using Sony Flashtool "Emma", useless it only detected my phone to tell me it was locked, then I go to Sony Bootloader Unlock Method, useless, I went to the company I bought the phone from (Movistar) they told me "This is not our problem", so Im guessing taking my phone to a Sony Support Center would be useless as well. Now everytime I turn on my phone I have to face that thing "Introduzca la contraseña para descifrar el almacenamiento", its on spanish, translate it, I NEVER used any password or PIN to lock my phone, I have no password, nor a PIN, never configured that, they told me my phone was reported as stolen, I have the ticket and the box.Simple, just tell me how to escape from that Lockdown and make my phone usable again so I can at least sell it.Flashing, no way, wont work.SDK, useless.Guarantee, expired.My Xperia (TM dont get mad), never configured it.Recovery mode, I updated my phone to Android 4.3 using PC Companion, had I know it will mess up the recovery mode, well, Im trying not to get mad here, but having an useless brick for which I paid a lot of money, is annoying and Im sure Im not the only one with this problem, I´ve been using Sony phones for a long time, all of them had their own unexplainable problems, but at least the other ones I could repair myself... Just tell me what do I need to do to make my phone usable again, if that phone has no repair, cause I dont remember setting up any password or PIN, just tell my straight forward "Mate, your phone is doomed", so I can toss it away and buy a new phone, a Sony one, cause I love your freaking phones, no sarcasm, just tell me so I start saving money again. Peace out.Yeah, its on Spanish, yeah Im a latin guy, yeah Im in the wrong section, but your paged sent me here.

I found out that if you typed a weird number a menu popped out in which you could hard reset the phone... I never repaired it with the PCC, it always showed a message "Unable to downoad your device software... Please check your connection and try again", and I click retry and retry and retry, it doesnt move forward, so all options are useless, and at last Safe Mode, even if I reboot it on Safe Mode, it shows me the same."Nothing can be done", "Replace the motherboard"... "Your phone is doomed" -_- Then I´ll toss it away tomorrow, I cant even sell it, well, thanks mate, I´ll start saving for a new one.

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